/*
ont-space - The ontology-based resource metadata repository
Copyright (c) 2006-2008, Information Eng. Research Unit - Univ. of Alcalá
http://www.cc.uah.es/ie
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option)
any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU Lesser General Public License for more
details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
with this library; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
 */
package org.ontspace.owl;

import org.ontspace.owl.util.MetadataRepositoryConfigException;
import java.util.HashMap;
import org.ontspace.*;

public class MetadataRepositoryFactory {

    /** Creates a new instance of MetadataRepositoryFactory */
    private MetadataRepositoryFactory() {
    }

    /**
     * This method creates a new  Repository 
     */
    public static MetadataRepository createMetadataRepository(HashMap params)
            throws MetadataRepositoryConfigException {
        return new MetadataRepositoryImpl(params, true);
    }

    /**
     * This method opens an existing Repository
     *
     */
    public static MetadataRepository openMetadataRepository(HashMap params)
            throws MetadataRepositoryConfigException {
        return new MetadataRepositoryImpl(params, false);
    }
}
